tahoma font in arabic... ???

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tahoma font in arabic... ???

Hi

I'm trying to install the tahoma font in my mac but whenever I open the ttf file I only see arabic characters instead of latin characters.

Any ideas?

TIA

macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Jul 28, 2008 3:31 AM

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Jul 28, 2008 4:19 AM in response to pier25

Hi Pier,

I see what you mean. I installed the Tahoma from here: http://www.buildwebsite4u.com/building/web-fonts.shtml but experienced the same problem.

A little tip if you can't find Tahoma in the correct characters... it's very similar to Verdana

And here's a link for more information on Fonts for Mac OS X 10.4
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1538

Carolyn 🙂

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pier25 Author

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Jul 28, 2008 4:30 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Hi Carolyn

I'm working with Verdana right now, but unfortunately when working with small font sizes with no anti-aliasing the difference is huge IMO...

The file I'm using is the one I used to work with on my old Pc and I swear it was with latin characters... so I think it's a conifg problem and not a file problem.

Thanks for the info anyway 😉

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Tom Gewecke

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Jul 28, 2008 9:48 AM in response to pier25

I'm trying to install the tahoma font in my mac but whenever I open the ttf file I only see arabic characters instead of latin characters.

Why do you need to "open the ttf file"? Can't you just put the font in Home/Library/Fonts, select it in your app, and create normal Latin text using it?

If you like, send me a copy of this problem font (tom at bluesky dot org).

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Tom Gewecke

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Jul 28, 2008 9:59 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

I see what you mean. I installed the Tahoma from here: http://www.buildwebsite4u.com/building/web-fonts.shtml but experienced the same problem.

Can you not use this font just like any other? Why is the fact that it shows arabic in the sample pane such a problem? It so happens that Tahoma does contain Arabic, but it also has Latin, Hebrew, Cyrillic, and Thai.

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pier25 Author

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Jul 28, 2008 1:35 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

You are right... if I install the font everything works fine. 🙂

I supose I lacked a bit of faith. I didn't know that the glyphs for arabic were also included in the same file 🙂

Thank you!

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Tom Gewecke

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Jul 28, 2008 2:17 PM in response to pier25

I supose I lacked a bit of faith. I didn't know that the glyphs for arabic were also included in the same file 🙂

Just too much faith in Fontbook. Those glyphs should not appear in the sample pane that way, but in this case the fact that they do just means either Fontbook or the font have some bugs, and it doesn't affect the font's operation. Personally I find Fontbook useless and always install fonts manually.

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